Kid’s Corner brings parental controls to Windows Phone 8

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Adults love shiny things, and kids are no different. If you’re a parent and you own a smartphone or tablet, it’s inevitable that your young ones will want to monkey with it. Fortunately for all of us with children, Microsoft has built a new parental control feature into Windows Phone 8 called Kid’s Corner that will prevent any harm from coming to our devices while the kids play Cut the Rope or watch videos. And with all those candy-colored Nokia WP8 phones on the way, Kid’s Corner is arriving just in time.

A little set-up is required first, of course. Pop in to the Kid’s Corner settings screen and choose the kind of content you want to be accessible. You can open up your music, movies, apps, and games, and it looks as though you’ll even be able to specify which ones you want the kids to be able to fire up — rather than only being able to give them carte blanche. Calling up Kid’s Corner is as simple as swiping in from the left whenever the WP8 lockscreen is displayed, and exiting only requires a single tap of the power button.

It may not be an earth-shattering addition, but it’s definitely the kind of feature that parents who are making the jump from a featurephone to their first smartphone could be swayed by. It’s also sure to be a hit with anyone who doesn’t want kids — or nosy friends — flicking through text messages, emails, or other personal information when a phone is left unattended for a few minutes.

Speak Your Mind

I think it was a needed feature, it’s only normal to want to protect your kids when they are online. For PCs you can use a monitoring and blocking application like Qustodio (http://www.qustodio.com/ ).